All around your baby is a magical world of objects just waiting to be discovered.

Once your baby is able to sit and hold things she will love to explore a ‘treasure basket.’ This is a low basket or sturdy box you have filled with lots of interesting household objects and things from nature. The objects must be large enough not to be swallowed and free from sharp edges or anything else that might be harmful when they are touched and quite possibly mouthed by a young child. Older toddlers enjoy the treasure basket, too – just keep introducing new objects.

My sister is about to have her second child, Deb. Do you think that a treasure basket would be a great present to give her for your little boy or girl from the get go or is there a certain age that it’s best to introduce them to the treasures?

That’s great, BJ! A treasure basket would be a wonderful baby present, although a newborn wouldn’t be able to use it. A treasure basket is awesome once the baby is interested in toys, though. 🙂Deb recently posted..How to Help Your Child Treasure Books

this is such a great idea- another thing my kds ( aged nearly 6, 3 1/2, and 7 months) all love is our silks basket– we have a basket full of different silk/nylon and other material scarves that they love to play with ei: making outfits for whatever they are playing – to dancing with them – to just tossing them – or in the 7 month olds case just chewing on them – best part is I paid only $3 at a second hand store that was going out of business for about 30 or so scarves!

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